[spectre] LASER Paris - February 27
Dear Friends, It is our great pleasure to invite you to the first *LASER Paris* event of the year 2020: "Foam and Whirlpool" will take place *at the Cité internationale des arts *on *February 27th *(19h00 - 22h00) with J*aviera Tejerina-Risso, Patrice Le Gal, Sandrine Teixido and Aurélien Gamboni.* It is free but registration is required : https://tinyurl.com/vkw86yc all details on the programme below. Looking forward to seeing you ! Best Annick Bureaud** ** ** *LASER Paris* *Thursday 27 February 2020* *Cité internationale des arts* (Auditorium) *18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville* *75004 Paris* 19h00 - 22h00 **http://www.olats.org/laser/laser.php **with *Javiera Tejerina-Risso, Patrice Le Gal, Sandrine Teixido and Aurélien Gamboni* Free admission in the limit of available seats, registration required (https://tinyurl.com/vkw86yc) and we start on time! LASER Paris takes place in French 19h00 - 21h00 : Projects presentation and discussion 21h00 - 22h00 : Free exchanges and discussion with drinks and snacks *Programme* *Javiera Tejerina-Risso*(artist) and *Patrice Le Gal*(Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille) // ***"Inside the Wave",*about an art-science collaboration *"Folds, Pleats and Waves"* Seas, oceans and waves remain largely unknown. For many years now, the collaboration between Javiera Tejerina-Risso and Patrice Le Gal has lead them to explore the dynamics and the forms of waves. They will present their crossed approach to the design and elaboration of artworks which find their inspiration both in the artistic and scientific realms. They will show that their creative processes are exactly at the point of convergence of their respective requirements and demands. *Sandrine Teixido*(anthropologist, CentraleSupélec - Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Toulouse) and *Aurélien Gamboni*(artist, HEAD, Geneva)// (project supported by La Diagonale Paris-Saclay) // *"Once upon a time there was ...**a maelström**",*about the project */A Tale as a tool/*// "Maelström", the sound of the word in itself demonstrates the terror of humans when facing the liquid fury of the ocean. This fear /of/ nature, at the core of Edgar Poe's short story /"A Descent into the Maelström"/ in which one can survive only by nature close observation, has become the starting point for an artistic as well as scientific investigation, this time about a fear /for /nature. /A tale as a tool/is a scientific and artistic project about contemporary environnemental issues taking Edgar Poe's short story as a tool to collect stories and testimonies in various field researches in Brazil, the Great Lakes (USA-Canada) up to Norvegian arctic where the story is located. Crossing different continents, this long term survey has accumulated over time a very diverse collection of stories which were turned into events in museums, art centres, and theatres. Moderator : Annick Bureaud During the break : Audience announcements Drinks and snacks after the presentations LASER Paris is co-organized by*Leonardo/Olats *(www.olats.org) and *La Diagonale Paris-Saclay *(http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr) in collaboration with the hosting venue, the *Cité internationale des arts *(https://www.citedesartsparis.net/) LASER Paris is supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. (https://www.fondationcarasso.org/) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] ALMAT 2020 submissions extended to February 16
Karen Lancel Studio Lancel/Maat www.lancelmaat.nl Address: Oostersekade 2, 1011LH Amsterdam NL Studio address: Oude schans 15k, 1011KR Amsterdam NL M: 0031(0)624873424 / 0031(0)628536885 PhD candidate Technical University of Delft | Participatory Systems Initiative > On 23 Jan 2020, at 13:13, Hanns Holger Rutz wrote: > > **ALMAT - Algorithms that Matter** > **Symposium on Algorithmic Agency in Artistic Practice** > > 6–7 July 2020, Graz Austria > > **Extended submission deadline: 16 February 2020** > > https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html > > Please feel free to distribute this call to your networks. > > Artists and scientists have worked with digital computers for over > seventy years, and algorithmic practices exist for a lot longer. But in > recent years, increased computing power and decreased costs and > miniaturisation of machines have created a new quantity and quality of > everyday exposure, economic and political criticality, and with it a > wave of public attention and discourse. As artists-researchers, how do > we incorporate this new situation into our practices, and more > importantly, how does this changed situation retroact on our > understanding of the role of digital art, sound art and artistic > practice itself? > > Rather than understanding algorithms as existing and transparent tools, > the ALMAT Symposium is interested in their genealogical, processual > aspects and their transformative potential. We seek critical approaches > that avoid both mystification and commodification, that aim at opening > the black box of "wonder" that is often presented to the public when > utilising algorithms. > > The foundation for the symposium is given by the eponymous project ALMAT > – Algorithms that Matter. ALMAT is an artistic research project by > Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò funded by the Austrian Science Fund > (FWF AR 403-GBL) and hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and > Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. > > ALMAT 2020 will take place (06–07 July) adjoining the 8th Conference on > Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X – xCoAx (08–10 July). xCoAx > is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and > media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry > on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that > connects them all. xCoAx has issued a separate call for participation – > http://www.xcoax.org – and reduced combi-tickets are > available for xCoAx + ALMAT. > > **Call for Contributions** > > The ALMAT Symposium calls for artistic research contributions in the > following two categories: > > 1. Contributions exploring the symposium's theme and the questions > arising from it. This may include: > - What are the material qualities specific of algorithms and > algorithmic practices? How does the algorithmic become malleable > as material? > - Are there particular affordances of the algorithmic? > - How does algorithmic agency unfold, how can it be observed, > formulated, or communicated? Which alternatives to traditional > concepts such as control/controller could be formulated? > - How does the reconfigurative "intrinsic" or "speculative" > movement of algorithms extend to or retroact on the artist or > recipient, how does it shape their interactions? > - How can artistic experimentation with algorithms be communicated > to an audience, how may it help sensitise and empower people to > take ownership of the algorithmic? > - Which are the thresholds of heteronomy/autonomy, what makes an > algorithmic practice become generative? > - What are philosophical, technological, aesthetic or artistic > consequences of acknowledging the agency of algorithms? > > 2. Contributions that explicitly refer to the research, the > experiences and the case studies of the ALMAT research > project. Contributions may be commentary, continuation, critique > or, more in general, a response to one or more aesthetic and > theoretic manifestations and artefacts reflected in the project's > documentation. The project's (ongoing) documentation is an online > hypertext starting at the Continuous Exposition: > https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/381566 . In > particular, we identified a number of works that are > good candidates for responses, as they will be visible or audible > during the symposium (see submission page). > > For more information and details of contribution formats and > application process, please refer to: > https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/698006 > > Contact: For any questions, please write to . > __ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info,
[spectre] Fwd: OFF-Biennale Budapest: INHALE!, April 24–May 31, 2020
Betreff:OFF-Biennale Budapest: INHALE! Datum: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:01:43 + Von:e-flux *OFF-Biennale Budapest* */INHALE!/* April 24–May 31, 2020 http://offbiennale.hu OFF-Biennale Budapest is the largest independent contemporary art event in Hungary. It started in 2014 as a grassroots initiative, a "garage" biennale set up by a small group of art professionals in order to create a platform for exchange between art practitioners and other members of society. Our main aim is to strengthen the local independent art scene, to generate public discourse on urgent but often suppressed issues. OFF has been a continuous experiment to perform and prefigure a sustainable and democratic institution in the civil realm. OFF-Biennale boycotts the Hungarian public art infrastructure: it does not apply for state-managed funding and steers clear from state-run art institutions. This is a political statement as much as a practical solution to protect the freedom of artistic expression. In lack of significant alternatives to the state infrastructure in Hungary's art scene, this decision confronts us with serious challenges in sustaining the project; at the same time, it allows us to demonstrate that it is possible in Hungary to work on this scale without accepting the negative compromises state subsidies often entail. After two successful editions in 2015 and in 2017, now we focus on a small number of complex projects that we co-produce and co-organize. The OFF curatorial team has worked in close collaboration with the local initiators on each aspect of their predominantly international projects; and by raising the visibility of these locally as well as internationally. /*INHALE!*/ Inhale! Exhale!—Respiration is a basic physiological process that functions involuntarily but can also be controlled. We take a deep breath when we want to say something or when we brace ourselves for a difficult task. "Fresh air" is also a symbol of freedom: metaphorically it may refer to a place or a situation in which it is possible to breathe freely. The third edition of OFF-Biennale Budapest, /*INHALE!*/ takes the seminal political poem, “A Breath of Air!” by 20th-century Hungarian poet Attila József as its point of departure. The poem was written in 1935, a time when the social catastrophe of the Great Depression rearranged the political map of Europe, and Fascism overruled half of the continent. After the crisis of 2008, the political climate has, again, moved into a more xenophobic, fascistoid direction in Hungary as well as in other countries of the world. And it is not only the political climate that has changed: the climate of the Earth itself also underwent dramatic changes due to human activities. Thus, in our 21st-century reading of the poem, a “breath of air” simultaneously refers to the galloping climate crisis and the fundamental freedoms threatened by populistic regimes and by global capital. What does contemporary art have to say when scientific facts are taken over by conspiracy theories, myths replace history, and creativity itself has also become subject to co-option? The presented projects not only point to problems: going beyond criticism, they deliver utopistic, playful, or very tangible suggestions and alternatives. Thus, /INHALE!/ is neither a desperate call for help, nor a demand only, but rather an imperative pertaining to all of us. It is a direct reference to how we must take a deep breath and take action for clean air, for the protection of our freedom, for the liberation of our imagination—to create and preserve conditions and places for breathing freely. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
